| What is your favorite Anita Blake book? |
| Guilty Pleasures |
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5% |
[ 5 ] |
| The Laughing Corpse |
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3% |
[ 3 ] |
| Circus of the Damned |
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4% |
[ 4 ] |
| The Lunatic Cafe |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Bloody Bones |
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3% |
[ 3 ] |
| The Killing Dance |
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9% |
[ 8 ] |
| Burnt Offerings |
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12% |
[ 11 ] |
| Blue Moon |
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10% |
[ 9 ] |
| Obsidian Butterfly |
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28% |
[ 25 ] |
| Narcissus in Chains |
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6% |
[ 6 ] |
| Cerulean Sins |
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6% |
[ 6 ] |
| Incubus Dreams |
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9% |
[ 8 ] |
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 Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:22 pm
Wow. Picking my favorite Anita Blake book is like picking a favorite song or a favorite movie for me. I just can't do it! I love all of the books equally, and it's very hard to choose even my least favorite, because there really isn't one.
Hm. I suppose if I had to choose a favorite, it would either be Bloody Bones, Blue Moon, Narcissus In Chains, or Cerulean Sins.
*sigh* That was so hard blaugh
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:03 pm
You're right. I find myself agreeing with you everywhere I see your posts. redface I too love every one of the books for different reasons. And each book has at least one point in which I go OMG!!! Most of the books have more than one moment like that.
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:28 am
Obsedian Butterfly and Bloody Bones are my fav.!
I love OB b/c it of course tells more about Edward! (I LOVE Edward, but JC still beats him) and I love Edward's mysterious personality. Olaf freaked me out man...especially at the end. eek I loved Bernard! lol
I liked Bloody Bones b/c it was more JC and none of Richard. (I'm not a big Richard fan though there are times that I root for him). Bloody Bones is one of the funniest I think b/c it has Jason, Larry, and of course, JC! I was laughing my a** off when Jean-Claude basically got drunk off of Jason's and Anita's blood. That was funny to me.
I would say more, but I don't have much more time to type since my mom came home.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:41 am
Mmm Narcissus in Chains ... first one i read.. for a english project sweatdrop and its been my favorite ever since.. i am not sure.. maybe its the jean-claude action...lol infact i only hated how richard turned into such a pissy b***h... i mean ... just die already >< ...
But its my favorite so far.. gotta get the new book
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:24 pm
My pick would be Circus of the Damned just barely over Obsidian Butterfly.
There are several reasons....it adds to the great chemistry Anita has with Jean-Claude while still having her push away from him. As she grows closer to his power, she finds much more about him. The introduction of Richard was really important to the overall arc of the books as well as giving a very base intro to the weres. Edward Edward Edward. Death himself as Death.
Mr. Oliver was a fascinating character. The situation over the Marks was awesome and I loved the overall plot and shape of the book. It focused not only on her life with the vampires but also with the vampire victims on the police side. Not too much on the zombie side, which was fine with me.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:21 pm
I loved the cave scene with her running from Alejandro into the water, and then her getting bitten and passing out from the poison. Oh I love that book!!!
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Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:54 am
I choose Cerulean Sins because it was the last one I read in the series, and Anita was getting more powerful (BWA HA HAH!) and bye-bye Richard!
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:52 pm
Livythia I will go with Blue Moon since I think that was the book that made me officially a fan of the series (I didn't read them all in order so it's not like it took long). Also, Obsidian Butterfly would have to be a close second. Without her main boys Anita still puts on a pretty good show. Blue Moon was a little boring for me. Plus I got mad at Richard b/c of his stubborness/Boy Scout ways.
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:28 pm
I think Narcissus in Chains holds a place in my heart because it was the very first Anita Blake book I read. But, I really like Obsidian Butterfly because of the action and plot. Plus, it had tons of Edward! heart
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:10 pm
Wow what a way to get introduced to the series. Narcissus in Chains must have been an interesting starting point. Have you read the rest yet?
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:18 pm
Of course. I first read NiC I think...2 years ago when I was in 7th grade. Of course I had no clue what the hell they were talking about when they kept mentioning the marks. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:57 pm
I've not had time to re-read any of them. So they've all turned into a blur. I can't hardly distinguish one from another anymore. Plus the first 5 books I read in a one book collection. That doesn't help. I remember the scene of Anita and JC in the fancy restraunt. That's my favorite scene, which ups the ranks of that book. I like Guilty Pleasures alot because of how much of a real person with real problems and physical ailments Anita seemed to be. Got me hooked. But overall, Obsidian Butterfly sticks out the most. I just loved so much out of that book. So I chose it.
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:20 pm
Obsidian Butterfly was my favorite so far. It took Anita away from all the drama in St. Louis and focussed on her relationship (?friendship?) with Edward, something the previous books failed to do adequately. There is something to be said for the mystery of not knowing everything about him, but there is also something humanizing about seeing him in a situation where he has to act "normal." OB really shows just how much of a sociopath/ psychopath he really is, and left me wanting to know more, like how he got to be the way he is, who the super-secreative military dudes at the end were and how Edward knew them, and other stuff.
Plus, that book was one of the more shocking books of the series as far as the murder scenes. The following books have focused so little on Anita's work as a preternatural investigator; OB was the last one with a lot of blood and gore, especially the part where that thing was in the nursery and eating the babies... seriously twieted (just how I like it). OB was the first time Anita was ever seriously close to death, the first time I wondered as a reader if she would really make it. It showed the weakness in her powers and forced her to rely on her guns and her killer instinct.
I don't know about anyone else, but I would like to see a spin-off series focused on Edward, from him becoming an assassin to just a cold-blooded killer of anything with a good price on its head.
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:05 pm
OHHHHH an Edward Series!!!!! That would be amazing!!!!!
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:21 pm
Ryanna Taylin Silverthorn I like her mini-story in the book Cravings. It is awsome, I think it's called "Blood Apon My Lips" or something like that. *Hyperness* 4laugh But, my fave book book is Cerulean Sins... Well, that and Obsidian Butterfly. I can't wait for Incubus Dreams to come out the 28th! Cravings was awesome, I read it. Not just the Laurall K. Hamilton story, but all four stories.
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